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16 April - Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne.^[1]
May
- General election results in no clear majority for either political faction in Parliament.^[2]
- The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ends with the defending Confederate forces (including the English) retaining control of the town.
25 September - Queen Anne appoints commissioners to negotiate political union with Scotland.^[2]
15 October - War of the Spanish Succession: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough leads an English naval force in the capture of Barcelona.^[3]
30 October - John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen’s Theatre in Haymarket.^[4]^[5]
27 December - John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen’s Theatre in Haymarket.^[4]^[5]
December - The Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover (next in succession to the British throne) and the "issue of her body" as British subjects.

Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire designed by John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.^[3] It is completed in 1724.
Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of Halley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in 1757.^[6]

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 204–205. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
1 2 "Who was John Vanbrugh?". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
1 2 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.).
↑ Halley, Edmond. Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae.

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